[atombender]

Indeed, as I said, Dep is okay when it works, until it doesn't. This [1], for example, is a blocking issue, and requires some manual editing of the lock file to get around. I've had other issues. The issues pale in comparison to the horribleness of Glide, but it's interesting just how these tools end up being so damn flaky.

[1] https://github.com/golang/dep/issues/1207

[benesch]

Ah, that is an unfortunate issue, and the error message is unreadable to boot.

> The issues pale in comparison to the horribleness of Glide, but it's interesting just how these tools end up being so damn flaky.

That's the crux of it, isn't it? The dozens of Go package managers that have come and gone over the years have provided us with substantial evidence that building a stable package manager requires several years of development. I think that's why I'm frustrated that the Go team hit the reset button again. Dep has accumulated plenty of bug fixes over the years to handle more and more of these edge cases, but vgo had to start from scratch.

On the bright side, vgo essentially can't fail.

[kaeshiwaza]

Not only buggy, theses tools didn't follow the simplicity that we like in Go. For example gb was more in the Go philosophy for my taste. I was surprise that it was not chosen as the official experiment.